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Day 4, here I come.
Loving my first week whoosh. Trying not to get expectations of being able to continue losing this way past the first week. I have gained about 10 pounds the month prior and I am excited to drop it and not feel like I am being swallowed up by my own body.
Yesterday I felt pretty hungry, tired and weak. I drank a few bottles of electrolyte water and allowed myself time to rest. I ate most of my calories within a 7 hour window, unintentionally. Ate beef instead of my usual turkey and chicken and those calories added up fast. After 530 pm, I logged my food and realized I was a bit over my calories for the day so I didn't eat anything beyond that. Instead I got out of the house and went shopping at Target to get my step count in for the day. I am trying to get in a 10 min walk daily and hit a step count of 5000. Implementing little changes I know I can do at first, hopefully moving onto bigger goals each month.
Hoping for some clarity today as my mind has been pretty foggy this week. I feel I am on the cusp of it but there are hormonal issues at work here. Last year I had a total hysterectomy, unexpected, and I have been on hormone replacement therapy ever since. I say unexpected because I went into the surgery for 1 ovary removal and woke up to be told the news that I had such horrible endometriosis everywhere that they took everything in an almost 5 hour surgery. That loss greatly impacted the way my body functions and I have had to accept the terms I have been given. Hormones aren't working so great for me and has made the weight loss process much harder for me as they basically put me into a surgical menopause state. I have had to process my feelings, allow myself to be angry, and stop making excuses for myself to even try. That is why I am here. I can either allow myself to let this take me down and surely waste into the unhealthy abyss of misery or I can choose to fight back against these forces and take some control back. Having the confidence that I can succeed is crucial, so 4 days in and things are going okay is definitely helping that crusade. I just have to be aware and pay attention so that I can succeed.
Here is to a great Day! My goals are to get some work done, plan my meals before I eat so that I don't end up in a similar situation as yesterday, stay under my calories for the day and get my 5000 steps in again today.
Cheers!
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396.5 lb
Lost so far: 6.5 lb.
Still to go: 146.5 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 21 July 2017:
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1493 kcal
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Fat: 154.80g | Prot: 155.22g | Carb: 67.93g.
Breakfast: Fried Egg, Organic Girl Baby Spinach, PCC Market Breakfast Turkey Sausage. Lunch: Thorne Research Vegalite Chocolate. Dinner: Kirkland Signature Chicken Stock, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Brussels Sprouts, Namaste Foods Gluten Free Organic Perfect Flour Blend, Trader Joe's Organic Chicken Breast Tenders. Snacks/Other: Metagenics Ultrainflamx Plus 360 Spice Flavor, Water's Edge Cyto-R Shake, Omega Nutrition Flax Seed Powder, Barlean's Lignan Omega Twin, Cave Man Mini Snack Bars - Dark Chocolate Caramel Cashew. more...
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losing 21.0 lb a week
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